War crimes

Courtney Hillebrecht’s research focuses on human rights and international law. Her most recent book, published in 2021, dealt with backlash against international courts. Hillebrecht is Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, chair of the Political Science Department, and director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. (Updated March 2025.)

Bedross Der Matossian is a Professor of Modern Middle East History in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he began his graduate studies in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in Middle East History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Lecturer of Middle East History in the Faculty of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For the Spring quarter 2014 he was appointed as the Dumanian Visiting Professor in the University of Chicago. His areas of interest include ethnic politics in the Middle East, inter-ethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, Palestinian history, and the history of Armenian Genocide. Currently he is the vice-chair of the Department of History. He has also served as the President of the Society for Armenian Studies. He serves on the Board of Directors of multiple international educational institutions and on the editorial board of multiple journals, the most prominent of which is the flagship journal of the field: International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES). He is also the series editor of Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World published by I.B.Tauris and Bloomsbury Press.